Attendance at Regionals

[chickod]

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Hello thanks for giving all of us your own delusional version of history, we really appreciate it, your a really smart person.

After living here for 58 years I'm certainly more qualified than you to give it. And I didn't give it for you to appreciate it because I couldn't care less.

[brassbonanza]

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If any of the WCHA teams played in St Paul MN Civic Center the NCAA may have sold up to 19000 tickets The regional games need to stay regional

Try again, UND and Minnesota played in the regional final at the X last year and they sold under 11K. Was there not enough time for those throngs of Gopher fans to figure out how to travel to St. Paul?

[J.D.]

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Shemp told me grand rapids would be banged out friday...what happened???

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Here are some numbers for the east, if the games had been played on the top seed’s rink:

Actual attendance at Providence: 6253
Top seed’s capacity: 3084
Disappointed fans: 3169

Actual attendance at Manchester: 8357
Top seed’s capacity: 6003
Disappointed fans: 2354

That’s 5500 in one day or about 10,000 for the tournament

[matt]

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To do that they would have to start the season earlier or compress the schedule. Remember they changed the schedule years ago so as not to have the F4 go up against the hoop finals.

I think the OP wanted this week to be the off week. That wouldn't work, as it would put hockey on the schedule for next week, and the whole idea from the NCAA is to have next week all for basketball.

[hockeyplayer1015]

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5,007 attendance for Providence tonight.

[ericredaxe]

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I think the OP wanted this week to be the off week. That wouldn't work, as it would put hockey on the schedule for next week, and the whole idea from the NCAA is to have next week all for basketball.

Although next week, there would be fewer basketball games for the Hockey games to go up against.... (not that anyone watches hockey anyway outside of our niche group)...

It could possibly help with travel and thus attendance for the regionals... not sure how much. I would certainly be more likely to travel with 12 days notice rather than 5.

[J.D.]

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5,007 attendance for Providence tonight.

Not bad at all. Good job by the fans in Manchester and Providence.

[Priceless]

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Manchester 8049, 8357
Providence 6253, 5007
Grand Rapids 2289, 1918
Toledo 2988, 2460

[J.D.]

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When I mocked Toledo being a site last year, somebody told me that it was a great choice because it was a great central location to most CCHA teams. So they get Miami and Notre Dame in Toledo...and? What a debacle.

[Priceless]

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Totals:
Manchester 16406
Providence 11260
Toledo 5448
Grand Rapids 4207

37721 for the weekend.

ETA: 74% of the attendance for the regionals was in either Manchester or Providence.

[The Rube]

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Try again, UND and Minnesota played in the regional final at the X last year and they sold under 11K. Was there not enough time for those throngs of Gopher fans to figure out how to travel to St. Paul?

Some points to be made about a St Paul regional:

It's right after the F5 (now defunct, which might change things in the future), which is THE tourney the locals/etc go to. Vacation days are spent, MUCH money is spent, and two weekends in a row like that hurt the pocketbook. And there's no way the F5 would take a back seat to the regionals around here.

The pricing is fine, IMO, if it is in St Paul. It's about the same/slightly higher than the F5 tickets. However, see the above point.

Add to that the people who go to the F4, that's 3 weekends in a month's time that you are going to spend a crapload of money, and your team may not even be there.


As mentioned, the F5 is no more. As for the MN fans that are on GPL/here, it's up in the air whether we make the Minnesota Cup or the B1G Mistake tourney "the" tailgate/hockey weekend. If it's the MN Cup, there's a much greater chance people would go to the regional. Enough time in between those long weekends, and we can blow those wads of cash for them.

[Farce Poobah]

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Some points to be made about a St Paul regional:

It's right after the F5 (now defunct, which might change things in the future), which is THE tourney the locals/etc go to. Vacation days are spent, MUCH money is spent, and two weekends in a row like that hurt the pocketbook. And there's no way the F5 would take a back seat to the regionals around here.

The pricing is fine, IMO, if it is in St Paul. It's about the same/slightly higher than the F5 tickets. However, see the above point.

Add to that the people who go to the F4, that's 3 weekends in a month's time that you are going to spend a crapload of money, and your team may not even be there.


As mentioned, the F5 is no more. As for the MN fans that are on GPL/here, it's up in the air whether we make the Minnesota Cup or the B1G Mistake tourney "the" tailgate/hockey weekend. If it's the MN Cup, there's a much greater chance people would go to the regional. Enough time in between those long weekends, and we can blow those wads of cash for them.

Yet with all that, last year's St Paul regional outdraw Manchester 2013 by 25%. And the 2-day total (21k) was comparable to the COMBINED total this year of Providence PLUS Toledo AND Grand Rapids.

Time to make St Paul a "permanent" host.

[J.D.]

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I'm not sure making St. Paul a permanent host would go over well (not just on here). And don't forget that it was aided by North Dakota also being there and meeting the Gophers in the regional final.

[Farce Poobah]

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I'm not sure making St. Paul a permanent host would go over well (not just on here). And don't forget that it was aided by North Dakota also being there and meeting the Gophers in the regional final.

Sure but in 2010, the St Paul regional drew around 14k (combined 2-day) without either UND or Minnesota. Still miles ahead of anything else in the West or Mideast.